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New Design for Old Buildings

New Design for Old Buildings

This book is a celebration of good new design for old buildings and the SPAB philosophy that good new architecture can sit happily alongside old and is preferable to pastiche. Endorsing the value of architects who are engaged to work in the historic environment this book explores design materials and technical considerations in creating the best low energy ecological and sustainable retrofits. It has never been more important to understand how old buildings can be adapted to make them useful and sustainable in the future. Showcasing the best examples of imaginative design and best practice this book illustrates how old buildings can be made sustainable through the best new design and puts these design exemplars into a historical and philosophical context. With illustrative case studies and interviews throughout including formal buildings churches domestic buildings commercial industrial and agricultural from all periods in the UK New Design for Old Buildings provides essential guidance on good imaginative new design for old buildings.

GBP 45.00
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The Access Audit Handbook An inclusive approach to auditing buildings

The Access Audit Handbook An inclusive approach to auditing buildings

Our buildings and environments should be inclusive to all but how can we assess this? The Access Audit Handbook is an indispensable tool for auditing the accessibility of buildings and services. This book offers straightforward advice about undertaking access audits and explains how they make buildings environments and services more inclusive. Following the audit the book explains how each of the various report formats works best to communicate recommendations in the content of current legislation funding requirements and best practice in building management. Well established as the best resource for conducting access audits the third edition of The Access Audit Handbook is fully up to date with the latest legal and technical standards as well as developments in equipment and building maintenance. Featuring advice on: Commissioning an access audit Audit methodology Making recommendations Report writing The practical guidance is supported by case studies worked examples and checklists. | The Access Audit Handbook An inclusive approach to auditing buildings

GBP 40.00
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Social Housing Definitions and Design Exemplars

Social Housing Definitions and Design Exemplars

This is a growing sector undergoing a huge period of change - with local authorities able to build their own housing for the first time in decades. Social Housing: Definitions and Design Exemplars explores how social/affordable housing has been delivered and designed with success throughout the UK in the last 10 years. Weaving together exemplar case studies essays and interviews with social housing pioneers and clients this book demonstrates real-life best practice responses to the challenges associated with housing provision with a focus on design ideas. | Social Housing Definitions and Design Exemplars

GBP 47.00
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21st Century Houses RIBA Award-Winning Homes

21st Century Houses RIBA Award-Winning Homes

Many people dream of commissioning an architect to design their perfect home. It is a commitment that takes time and money but having a bespoke space built around your specific needs interests and desires can be life-changing. So what makes an award-winning 21st-century house? The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has been championing outstanding work for over 180 years and the internationally recognised RIBA awards celebrate the very best in British architecture. The winning houses featured here showcase truly innovative design contemporary materials and techniques and inspired responses to historical and urban settings as well as areas of natural beauty. By working closely with clients every step of the way the architects’ extraordinary buildings redefine what ‘home’ looks like. This compilation of some of the best RIBA award-winning houses from the last ten years offers an essential source of ideas and inspiration for the contemporary British home. From a sustainable townhouse to a modern cottage a hillside home to a lakeside escape these houses are show-stopping examples of architects surpassing their clients’ loftiest dreams. Featuring: The best RIBA award-winning houses from the last decade Houses from each region of the UK A rich variety of projects – from new builds to conversions to extensions Case studies from esteemed practices including: Alison Brooks Architects Chris Dyson Architects Foster Lomas Henning Stummel Architects Mole Architects and Tonkin Liu Guidance for working with architects. | 21st Century Houses RIBA Award-Winning Homes

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Taste A cultural history of the home interior

Taste A cultural history of the home interior

Democratic in intention and approach the book will argue that the home interior as independently created by the ‘amateur’ householder offers a continuous informal critique of shifting architectural styles (most notably with the advent of Modernism) and the design mainstream. Indeed it will suggest that the popular increasingly exerts an influence on the professional. Underpinned by academic rigour but not in thrall to it above all this book is an engaging attempt to identify the cultural drivers of aesthetic change in the home extrapolating the wider influence of ‘taste’ to a broad audience – both professional and ‘trade’. In so doing it will explore enthralling territory – money class power and influence. Illustrated with contemporary drawings and cartoons as well as photos the book will not only be an absorbing read but an enticing and attractive object in itself. | Taste A cultural history of the home interior

GBP 42.00
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Architect's Guide to NEC4

Architect's Guide to NEC4

This user friendly guide introduces explains and demystifies the NEC4 contract on a practical work-based level. Made for architects by an architect it explores the best approach to collaborative and contractual partnering work practices. Alongside explanations of the contracts and clauses it presents the key areas of distinction from alternative standard form contracts and examines the integrated project management principles that bring the NEC4 contracts together as a whole. It's the perfect companion book for professionals who are new to the NEC contract family and former users trying to understand the latest updates. | Architect's Guide to NEC4

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Machine Learning Architecture in the age of Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning Architecture in the age of Artificial Intelligence

‘The advent of machine learning-based AI systems demands that our industry does not just share toys but builds a new sandbox in which to play with them. ’ - Phil Bernstein The profession is changing. A new era is rapidly approaching when computers will not merely be instruments for data creation manipulation and management but empowered by artificial intelligence they will become agents of design themselves. Architects need a strategy for facing the opportunities and threats of these emergent capabilities or risk being left behind. Architecture’s best-known technologist Phil Bernstein provides that strategy. Divided into three key sections – Process Relationships and Results – Machine Learning lays out an approach for anticipating understanding and managing a world in which computers often augment but may well also supplant knowledge workers like architects. Armed with this insight practices can take full advantage of the new technologies to future-proof their business. Features chapters on: Professionalism Tools and technologies Laws policy and risk Delivery means and methods Creating consuming and curating data Value propositions and business models. | Machine Learning Architecture in the age of Artificial Intelligence

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Think Like An Architect How to develop critical creative and collaborative problem-solving skills

Think Like An Architect How to develop critical creative and collaborative problem-solving skills

Do you know how to think like an architect? Do you know why you should? How do you make sure that you have the critical thinking tools necessary to prosper in your academic and professional career? This book gives you the answers. Architects have a valuable and critical set of multiple thinking types that they develop throughout the design process. In this book Randy Deutsch shows readers how to access those thinking types and use them outside pure design thinking – showing how they can both solve problems but also identify the problems that need solving. To think the way the best architects do. With a clear driving narrative peppered with anecdote stories and real-life scenarios this book will future-proof the architectural student. Change is coming in the architecture profession and this is a much-needed exploration of the critical thinking skills that architects have in abundance but that are not taught well enough within architecture schools. These skills are crucial in being able to respond agilely to a future that nobody is quite sure of. | Think Like An Architect How to develop critical creative and collaborative problem-solving skills

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How To Win Work The architect's guide to business development and marketing

How To Win Work The architect's guide to business development and marketing

You are a great designer but no-one knows. Now what? This indispensable book written by one of the most influential marketers in architecture will demystify Public Relations and marketing for all architects whether in large practices or practicing as sole practitioners. It bridges the distance between architects and marketing by giving practical tips best practice and anecdotes from an author with 20 years’ experience in architecture marketing. It explains all aspects of PR and Business Development for architects: for example how to write a good press release; how to make a fee proposal; how to prepare for a pitch. It gives examples of how others do it well and the pitfalls to avoid. In addition it discusses more general aspects which are linked to PR and BD such as being a good employer ethics for architects and the challenges when working abroad. Featuring vital insights from a wide variety of architects from multinational practices to small offices this book is an essential companion to any architectural office. | How To Win Work The architect's guide to business development and marketing

GBP 34.00
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Feasibility Studies An Architect’s Guide

Feasibility Studies An Architect’s Guide

Find that you’re spending much longer than planned on a feasibility study? Or that you have drifted into detailed design without formalising an appropriate form of appointment? This practical guide details the benefits of a feasibility study. Once you’ve secured the commission how do you ensure you’re following current best practice? Aimed at architects it identifies the pitfalls involved in undertaking a feasibility study and explains how to set boundaries organise the process and manage clients’ aspirations. By featuring recent live projects alongside advice from successful architectural practices it illustrates how a feasibility study can help achieve positive outcomes and avoid the dangers of a poorly defined brief and service proposal. Presenting the client’s as well as the architect’s perspective this publication highlights why a feasibility study is a sensible way of establishing viability prior to committing to a full-service commission. It underlines the significance of ‘adding value’ as an architect. | Feasibility Studies An Architect’s Guide

GBP 25.00
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A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates

A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates

‘It was like heaven! It was like a palace even without anything in it … We’d got this lovely lovely house. ’ In 1980 there were well over 5 million council homes in Britain housing around one third of the population. The right of all to adequate housing had been recognised in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights but long before that popular notions of what constituted a ‘moral economy’ had advanced the idea that everyone was entitled to adequate shelter. At its best council housing has been at the vanguard of housing progress – an example to the private sector and a lifeline for working-class and vulnerable people. However with the emergence of Thatcherism the veneration of the free market and a desire to curtail public spending council housing became seen as a problem not a solution. We are now in the midst of a housing crisis with 1. 4 million fewer social homes at affordable rent than in 1980. In this highly illustrated survey eminent social historian John Boughton author of Municipal Dreams examines the remarkable history of social housing in the UK. He presents 100 examples from the almshouses of the 16th century to Goldsmith Street the 2019 winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize. Through the various political aesthetic and ideological changes the well-being of community and environment demands that good housing for all must prevail. Features: 100 examples of social housing from all over the UK illustrated with over 250 images including photographs and sketches. A complete history dating from early charitable provision to ‘homes for heroes’ garden villages to new towns multi-storey tower blocks and modernist developments to contemporary sustainable housing. Iconic estates including: Alton East and West Becontree Dawson’s Heights Donnybrook Quarter Dunboyne Road and Park Hill. Projects from leading architects and practices including: Peter Barber Neave Brown Karakusevic Carson Kate Macintosh and Mikhail Riches. | A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates

GBP 42.00
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Architect: The evolving story of a profession

Architect: The evolving story of a profession

The architect’s role is constantly adapting. Throughout history it has shifted significantly shaped by social cultural technological and economic forces. The very definition of what an architect is and does has evolved over time from lead builder or master mason to principal designer. A collaborative and reactive profession it is inextricably linked to the power of the patron whether the client is an influential and affluent individual or a political commercial civic or religious organisation. From Ancient Egypt where architects were members of the ruling class tied into the running of the empire to the 21st century when questions are being raised about the future of the profession this book with its engaging narrative explores the constant threads that remain as the profession adapts. While architects are no longer deified their ability to imagine a new impending reality in built form implies a visionary dimension to their work. By focusing on both the practicalities of the profession and the more intangible motivations behind design – humans’ need to make a mark upon their surroundings – this volume provides a critical overview of over 3000 years of practice and education. Looking at the key questions of where the architectural profession originated in the Western tradition why it is how it is today and where it might be going next the authors postulate that architects’ ability to adapt and reinvent themselves in the past will stand them in good stead for the uncertainties of the future. | Architect: The evolving story of a profession

GBP 32.00
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Eric Lyons and Span

Eric Lyons and Span

Due to popular demand we are delighted to offer this new paperback edition of Eric Lyons and Span. Lavishly illustrated and deeply researched this book celebrates the work of the architect Eric Lyons OBE (1912-1980) whose famous post-war housing - that today would be marketed as 'lifestyle housing' - is as well-loved today as it was vibrantly successful when first constructed. Built almost entirely for Span Developments its mission was to provide an affordable environment that gave people a lift. Influenced by Walter Gropius Lyons brought a commitment to high density housing and the idea of fostering community into his Span work without compromising his intuitive sensitivity for landscape. His success brought the practice an impressive array of awards and led to a term as President of the RIBA. The enduring success of his design philosophy can be traced forward to 2005 when Span received a special Housing Design Award given to schemes that meet the current Sustainable Communities Plan. Indeed the concept of Span mirrors current best practice thinking in housing design and continues to offer a fresh relevant challenge to volume housebuilders in Britain today. This book serves as a lively reminder of that fact. Written by distinguished historians practitioners and Span enthusiasts the book has been researched using the archive compiled by Ivor Cunningham one of Lyons ex-partners while a detailed gazetteer contains scale plan drawings of many of Spans housing templates.

GBP 35.00
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Home Extension Design

Home Extension Design

This book is a practical guide for homeowners with checklists and guidance on how to make their project successful. Most people considering a significant alteration to their home have no experience or knowledge of the process that has to be followed to make their project successful and the consequences of things going wrong are serious. As with the first edition this fully-revised guide distils all of the practical information needed to run a project from dream to reality highlighting the pitfalls along the way and suggesting ways to avoid them. Peppered with inspirational case studies and giving indications of costs and timescales Home Extension Design 2e demystifies both the building process and all the surrounding issues to do with design sustainability budgeting planning regulations and the use of building contracts. This book is the essential go-to resource for reliable independent advice on how to set up and run a building project.

GBP 45.00
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Design your life An architect’s guide to achieving a work/life balance

Design your life An architect’s guide to achieving a work/life balance

Ten years ago Clare Nash was struggling with a common problem: how to be an architect and still have a life. With no job no savings and no clients in the midst of a recession Clare set up her own practice with little more than a few postcards in local shop windows and a very simple website. Determined to better combine her life and family with professional work she created an innovative practice that is flexible and forward-looking based around remote working and the possibilities offered by improving technology. Bursting with tips ideas and how-tos on all aspects of designing a working life that suits you and your business this book explains in clear and accessible language how to avoid the common pitfalls of long hours and low pay. It explores how to juggle work with family commitments how to set your own career path and design priorities and how to instil a flexible working culture within a busy lifestyle. Encompasses the full range of life-work challenges: Money fees and cashflow Playing to your personal strengths Outsourcing areas of weakness Building a happy and productive remote-working team Creating a compelling marketing strategy Juggling parenthood and work Studying and honing workplace skills Provides the inside view from innovative practices: alma-nac Gbolade Design Studio Harrison Stringfellow Architects Invisible Studio Architects Office S&M Architects POoR Collective Pride Road Architects and Transition by Design. | Design your life An architect’s guide to achieving a work/life balance

GBP 30.00
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Loft Conversion Handbook

Loft Conversion Handbook

This book is an easy-to-use handbook providing architects and builders with up-to-date guidance on managing loft conversions and ensuring they achieve compliance with the Building Regulations. It brings together solutions offered in the Approved Documents and third tier guidance such as industry literature in one concise and fully illustrated guide. Starting with chapters on the existing structure the guide is then divided into chapters on the main considerations for a loft conversion covering topics such as fire safety windows and doors and insulation. This is an essential read for anyone looking for a guide which simplifies the building regulations process and offers solutions where applicable to achieve minimum good practice and advanced construction standards. | Loft Conversion Handbook

GBP 33.00
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Small Practice and the Sole Practitioner

Small Practice and the Sole Practitioner

This book is a practical guide for students or those already running or thinking of running a small practice on how to set up and run a small architectural practice and how to run multiple small projects efficiently. It is split into three distinct sections: Part 1 begins with the practicalities of setting up a small architectural business; Part 2 goes into detail on how to run your small practice including valuable advice on business planning and cash flow; and Part 3 follows with guidance on running multiple small projects. Structured around the RIBA Plan of Work this section has plenty of examples of the kinds of projects - both domestic and non-domestic - that the small practice might take on and finishing with 10 illustrated case studies of domestic and commercial projects from £50 000–£750 000. | Small Practice and the Sole Practitioner

GBP 35.00
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Architectural Acoustics A guide to integrated thinking

Architectural Acoustics A guide to integrated thinking

This book is an authoritative but uniquely accessible and highly illustrated guide to good acoustic design practice for architects interior designers and acoustic professionals. It provides a user-friendly introduction to architectural acoustics and acoustics technology where the market is crowded with dense and technical texts. It will go through each typology in turn explaining the key acoustic concepts with highly illustrated and international case studies that demonstrate cutting-edge practice and technology innovative design techniques and common challenges and solutions. | Architectural Acoustics A guide to integrated thinking

GBP 52.00
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101 Rules of Thumb for Low-Energy Architecture

101 Rules of Thumb for Low-Energy Architecture

Buildings and construction are a major contributor to the climate and biodiversity emergency. They account for nearly 40% of energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. It is more important than ever for architects to design responsibly and create low-carbon low-energy buildings for a sustainable future. 101 Rules of Thumb sets out the essential elements of low-energy architecture in a fresh intuitive way. Where ever-changing technology and complex legislation can cloud the designer’s thought-process this book equips you with the fundamentals you need to minimise CO2 emissions design for low-energy use and work with not against the forces of nature. With reliable simple rules of thumb each page focuses on a single piece of guidance along with a clear hand-drawn illustration. The emphasis is on passive low-energy principles and the rules of thumb cover all the design fundamentals from site and location to orientation and form peppered with ideas to help the designer think outside the box drawing inspiration from traditional methods photoperiodic plants and the black-tailed prairie dog. An extended fully updated narrative bibliography explores the sources in detail and provides a valuable springboard for further study. Applicable throughout the world in any climate region 101 Rules of Thumb is a global primer to be dipped into at any time as a quick means of re-focusing on what’s important when designing a new or retrofitted low-energy building. The rules cover: Site and location Orientation and form The low-energy building envelope Carbon free heating cooling and lighting Passive low-energy principles. | 101 Rules of Thumb for Low-Energy Architecture

GBP 22.00
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Good Practice Guide Business Resilience

Good Practice Guide Business Resilience

Architecture can be a high risk and low-income profession. Planning to manage risks is essential. Workloads tend to be cyclical and managing lean periods and booms whilst being prepared for the next downturn is a key requirement. This book is a how-to guide to build business resilience into your architectural practice offering methods for managing business-critical events and crises. It shows you how to analyse trouble pre-emptively tackle pitfalls and gives you confidence in decision-making to stay ahead. Featuring case studies with expert insight into sole shareholder and director experience of a small practice it’s aimed across all levels with straightforward honest and accessible advice. It is structured with people and organisations as the core framework exploring practice staff clients projects consultants and providers. It provides operational advice on the day-to-day running of practice and how to respond to disruption. | Good Practice Guide Business Resilience

GBP 32.00
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Healthy Placemaking Wellbeing Through Urban Design

Healthy Placemaking Wellbeing Through Urban Design

In modern-day society the main threats to public health are now considered ‘avoidable illnesses’ which are often caused by a lack of exercise and physical activity. Research suggests that architectural and urban design strategies play an important role in reducing the amount of avoidable illnesses by enabling physical activity through healthier streets. Practitioners must now consider how they can encourage people to lead healthier lifestyles and improve health through urban design. This book presents the path to healthier cities through six core themes - urban planning walkable communities neighbourhood building blocks movement networks environmental integration and community empowerment. Each theme is presented with an overview of the issues the solutions and how to apply them practically with exemplars and precedents. It's an essential text that provides practitioners across urban design architecture master planning with the necessary knowledge and guidance to understand their role in producing healthier places and put it in to practice. | Healthy Placemaking Wellbeing Through Urban Design

GBP 37.00
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Dulwich Mid-Century Oasis

Dulwich Mid-Century Oasis

Dulwich’s mid-century modern architecture is increasingly recognised for its qualities of light landscape and lifestyle. In the 1950s 60s and 70s around 2 000 new homes were created to the most modern standards without destroying the qualities which had made Dulwich so attractive to previous generations. With both historic and new photography this book showcases the award-winning work of the Dulwich Estate’s architects Austin Vernon & Partners working with house builder Wates. Today there is much to be learned from the architects and landscape planners who saw their role as fundamental to building Britain’s modern society. | Dulwich Mid-Century Oasis

GBP 27.00
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Cross Laminated Timber A design stage primer

Cross Laminated Timber A design stage primer

Cross-laminated timber (CLT) has long been heralded as a wonder material with a light environmental footprint high strength quick installation times and reduced waste – so why isn’t everyone using it? Delving into the key considerations including fire safety cost and value visual aspects planning feasibility and engineering this book is an essential companion to designing and delivering exemplar CLT buildings. Abundantly illustrated with over 130 colour images and in-depth case studies from around the world it will help the entire project team - whether design team constructor or clients - to better understand and build using a truly modern method of construction. Outlines key challenges as well as benefits of CLT including quality cost and environmental benefits risk reduction and health and safety benefits Presents lessons learnt to aid the development process from the earliest stages of design to production and assembly Accessible easy-to-read handbook format allows you to dip in and out investigating issues as necessary Multidisciplinary in approach with contributions from a range of practitioners | Cross Laminated Timber A design stage primer

GBP 45.00
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Design Studio Vol. 1: Everything Needs to Change Architecture and the Climate Emergency

Design Studio Vol. 1: Everything Needs to Change Architecture and the Climate Emergency

Want to keep up with emerging design thinking and issues worldwide? Design Studio is a new thematic series that distils the most topical work and ideas from schools and practices globally. The first volume launches with a statement: Everything Needs to Change. Exploring architecture and the climate emergency editors Sofie Pelsmakers (author of Environmental Design Sourcebook) and Nick Newman (climate activist and Director at Studio Bark) are channelling the message of Greta Thunberg to inspire enthuse and inform the next generation of architects. Featuring articles building profiles and case studies from a range of leading voices it explores solutions to climatic environmental and social challenges. It urges readers to radically rethink what it means to be an architect in an era of climate crisis and what the role of the architect is or can be. Discover how using local materials working with nature radical design processes transformative learning and activism can help us find hope in the burning world. Together we can force change for a more sustainable and equitable tomorrow. This first volume is produced in four unique fluorescent colours – green red yellow and purple – to be your own poster for change. | Design Studio Vol. 1: Everything Needs to Change Architecture and the Climate Emergency

GBP 32.00
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Nature Inside A biophilic design guide

Nature Inside A biophilic design guide

Written by a leading proponent of biophilic design this is the only practical guide to biophilic design principles for interior designers. Describing the key benefits principles and processes of biophilic design Nature Inside illustrates the implementation of biophilic design in interior design practice across a range of international case studies – at different scales and different typologies. Starting with the principles of biophilic design and the principles and processes in practice the book then showcases a variety of interior spaces – residential retail workplace hospitality education healthcare and manufacturing. The final chapter looks ‘outside the walls’ giving a case study at the campus and city scale. With practical guidance and real-world solutions that can be directly-applied in day-to-day practice this is a must-have for designers interested in applying biophilic principles. | Nature Inside A biophilic design guide

GBP 47.00
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